Our Charity - ChildLine

As part of the NSPCC, ChildLine is a registered charity providing a free 24-hour confidential service in the UK for children and young people in distress or danger. Trained ChildLine volunteer counsellors comfort, advise and protect children and young people who may feel they have nowhere else to turn.

Their call centres and counsellors are overwhelmed with calls, and they need all our help to ensure that every child can reach someone when they need them the most. Funds are needed to continue to answer the calls, recruit and train volunteer counsellors and to develop new technology to ensure children can communicate with ChildLine in ways they feel most comfortable.

In 2009 ChildLine launched an online service where children can also receive live, confidential online counselling through ChildLine.org.uk.

ChildLine is the chosen charity of the UK information security industry, and together we help ChildLine achieve its objectives. In 2010 we pledged to raise £5,000 in sponsorship through our entry to the White Hat Rally to support them, and though our sponsors generosity we exceeded our expectations!

This money helps achieve their 2010 stated objectives:

• ChildLine want to be able to answer 80% of the calls to the Helpline
• ChildLine aim to recruit 1,786 more volunteers
• In total, ChildLine aims to answer over 1,100,000 calls per year
• By 2011 ChildLine plans to provide counselling support for 1.2 million calls plus 380,000 online and SMS contacts

How your donations can help 

• £4 could answer a child’s call to ChildLine
• £85 could pay for the cost of counselling two children who would otherwise feel like no one is there to help them
• £250 could pay for two days of individual therapeutic sessions between a child and social worker at one of ChildLine’s domestic violence centres
• £1,000 could cover the cost of all the freephone calls to one ChildLine counsellor for two years

ChildLine relies on people like you to have the commitment and generosity to help end cruelty to children. If you would like to make a personal donation to support ChildLine please click on the link at the bottom of this page or visit our donation page.

To find out more about ChildLine, the NSPCC, or the White Hat Rally event that we are taking part in please call 020 7825 2544 or email kphillips@nspcc.org.uk



NSPCC registered charity numbers 216401 and SC037717  
You can make a donation to support this year's team in the rally and find out more details of this year's rally from the organisers.